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Beauty and control dynamics are the unifying elements throughout John’s practice. Patience, simplicity and persistence are constants that inform reiterative, work intensive processes. Noestheden fetishizes labour. Behaving like a machine has become a desirable experimental condition that delivers contingencies of (un)predictability and (im)perfection. In each body of work, he has chosen media and processes for their (assumed) control mechanisms that explore the peripheral and dynamic edges of randomness/pattern and intuition/embedded behavior. These continuing investigations are informed by the elements and conditions of the Universe, the patterning of nature, the machine and Chaos Theory. All of his work is about representing the universe through mediated, inflated models extracted from amateur and professional guides to the Universe as well as Astronomy and Art books. Some drawings in this series are rigorous transcriptions of NASA and Hubble documents while others are total fabrications/inventions based on collaged, highly inflated and mediated illustrations by Wil Tirion. John is particularly inspired by the astronomer and the mathematician whose conceptual journeys rely on historical precedents, symbols, models and codes. His interest in incorporating printed images with half-tone systems reveals acknowledgements to Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmar Polke and Chris Cran.
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